Sentence examples for a tackled from inspiring English sources

Everyone - players and spectators - seemed acutely aware that the All Blacks were one injudicious trip over a tackled player away from blowing the match.

When that new Superman film comes out next year, I guarantee he'll spend 75% of it rolling around on the floor clutching his knee like a tackled striker.

The first recorded use of the term, in a history of sports at Princeton, refers to "a safety man," whose duties include recovering fumbles and impeding the progress of a tackled opponent.

In particular, he imported the ruck — the characteristic New Zealand tactic of driving over a tackled player to win the ball with the feet rather than, as tended to happen in Europe, wrestling for possession with hands — and was rewarded by some brilliant displays against European opposition.

Perhaps the skill learned most by rugby players recently is the art of bending over a tackled player to forage for the ball.

Connacht were forced on the defensive, particularly after O'Halloran was sin-binned for not releasing a tackled player, but Leinster lacked their usual cutting edge.

It's a subject tackled in an essay by the novelist John Barth, now 81, in the literary magazine Granta, in which he says that he believes the well of his inspiration has run dry.

Air traffic congestion has become a widely tackled issue in the current literature which is addressed using various methodologies from algorithms to optimization models and considering diverse, case-specific air traffic scenarios.

This was seen in ball-carrying players sustaining direct impact from a tackling opponent directly on the shoulder and in tackled players falling onto the shoulder.

It's a theme being tackled head on by a number of street photographers, including two in the festival: Mimi Mollica, with his images of bus passengers on CCTV screens, and Mishka Henner, whose "No Man's Land" projects plucks roadside images of women apparently soliciting for sex from Google Street View.

I became aware of Lee after this Guggenheim winner created The Shipment, a show that tackled race mostly from an African American perspective (though Lee is Korean by birth) and did it so smartly and wisely she attracted one of the best ensembles of that season.